A general method for creating a bilingual transliteration dictionary

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 273-276

  Kirschenbaum, Amit ^a,b   Wintner, Shuly ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

GENERAL METHOD; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE APPLICATIONS; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES; WRITING SYSTEMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85037065218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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